• Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus
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Found a really cool video on vimeo, describing the worlds first weapon grade supervirus. [media]http://vimeo.com/25118844[/media]
If it's open source then won't it be easy to reverse engineer and stop.
-snip- misunderstood you.
[QUOTE=retroboy4;30548675]If it's open source then won't it be easy to reverse engineer and stop.[/QUOTE] You underestimate its complexity
Oh god, were gonna be poor.
If you close your eyes and just listen to it it sounds like you're playing Far Cry 2
[QUOTE=retroboy4;30548675]If it's open source then won't it be easy to reverse engineer and stop.[/QUOTE] You did hear the part where he said that it's advanced enough to CHANGE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SETTINGS. That is beyond complexity a average person could understand.
I think I remember this being posted here not too long ago.
[QUOTE=coco911231;30554424]If you close your eyes and just listen to it it sounds like you're playing [b]Far Cry 2[/b][/QUOTE] I suddenly felt like there were angry black people about to crash into my house and kill me.
STUXNET had a very specific target. All it did was spin the centrifuges slower every few minutes so it would ruin the uranium being enriched. It only looked for machines that Iran had, and it never was coded to infect over the internet. All the infections ran through removable drives, since the computers running the centrifuges didnt have internet connection. When the computer operators would update the machines, that's when STUXNET would attack. I got all this information from a computer engineer from Target Forensics who found STUXNET in their systems. (Target runs state of the art forensics services)
Fuck this, Im going to the woods with an axe to live the rest of my life.
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